Word: fervidly
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Nervi also ascribes the extraordinary aesthetic and emotional success of Gothic architecture to the "inseparable mixture of cold technique and fervid passion" which went into...
...served during the early '30s as a fervid assistant to Judge Samuel Seabury in the investigation of Mayor Jimmy Walker's gaily corrupt New York City administration. He spent nine years as chief justice of New York City's Court of Special Sessions, retiring in 1960 and giving as his reason ill health induced by the "constant anxiety, irritation and strain" of the job. He was a suave, London-born lawman, with plenty of influential friends-among them New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. It was Celler who pushed...
...sources of his fascination with technology lie in a fervid desire to create a world in which peace is possible and in which man can pursue his interests and desires wtih far greater freedom than known today. His writings only hint at this humanity; for only in his frequent use of conception-pregnancy-birth metaphors does a humane tone hesitatingly emerge...
...series of visits with what he calls "contemporary saints." There was white-bearded Vinoba Bhave, marching through India in tennis shoes, seven days a week, year after year, persuading the rich to give their land to the poor. Koestler rather admired him, but doubted his final effectiveness. When the fervid hordes who follow him got out of hand, Koestler observed, Bhave "gave an astonishing display of saintmanship," zigzagging through the crowd at a trot, pushing and shoving them into awed order...
...Concerto Grosso, Senturia teamed up six bass viols, eight 'celli, and a harpsichord, with a large sized crew of string and wind players. It was a semi-Stokowski reading of Handel, with much contrast between the fervid string group and the more restrained, less impassioned woodwind ensemble. The solo passages occasionally caused problems, as did the corps of basses which mainly served to muddy the sound...